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Bournemouth — Oct 20th 2015

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After a battle with a Mac and projector that were not on speaking terms, John Hooper got off to a late start in showing us how keyboard shortcuts, in lieu of using the mouse for everything, can improve the efficiency of common tasks on the Mac and now iPad too. We discovered that most of us use few shortcuts beyond cut and paste.
John distributed a comprehensive reference sheet of shortcuts and highlighted their… Read more…

Dorchester — Oct 13th 2015

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Mark opened the evening with an entertaining Keynote presentation about Calendar, starting with a look back at earlier Personal Information Manager apps — he even turned up an entry dated Jan 20th 1995 from Claris Organiser an early PIM app. He showed how to create, share and subscribe to calendars on both Mac and IOS and how in recent OSX and iOS versions you can click on a date… Read more…

Fareham — Oct 10th 2015

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There were eleven members at this meeting.

John demonstrated some of the features just released in iOS 9.
There were three main changes, and he used a downloaded You Tube video to demonstrate these as they were not designed to run on his version of iPad.
The three features, namely Picture in Picture, Slideover and Split Screen Multitasking are likely to be more beneficial on the soon-to-be released iPad… Read more…

Beaminster — Oct 6th 2015

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Hopefully it was not the subject that kept people away, since spreadsheets
aren't everybody's cup of tea. Whatever the cause, there was a very small
gathering to hear Michael's presentation on the basics of Numbers. This was
designed to show newcomers what Numbers is about, what is available to get
started and how to set up a very simple spreadsheet, for example on the
lines of a bank statement. Some… Read more…

Salisbury — Sep 29th 2015

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10 members and 2 visitors

There were questions on Safari not working with Virgin e-mails.

Adding a contact to SKYPE, also accepting and adding a request for a SKYPE contact.

Care must be taken when opening an e-mail apparently from Apple that may be a scamming operation by criminals hoping to get your password and bank details, check whether it is genuine you should hover the mouse… Read more…

Bournemouth — Sep 15th 2015

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A fairly small group gathered after the Summer break and we were pleased to welcome two prospective members, Steve & Mary.

Tony then introduced the main item of the evening, an introduction to the dark art of HTML by John Ansell.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the late 1980s. He had worked locally for a while in the 70s, including at Plessey… Read more…

Fareham — Sep 12th 2015

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14 people attended this meeting, including four guests.

Mick gave us quite a comprehensive talk about how to get started using the Pages app for the iPad. He demonstrated many of the features by using a previously saved letter heading template.
Apparently you can do all the text and format adjustments the same as on the Mac version once you know where everything is. He also showed us how to insert a… Read more…

Dorchester — Sep 8th 2015

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Mick introduced us to Accountz, a simple user-friendly accounting program. Accountz comes in two forms: Personal and Business. Mick demonstrated the Personal version which offers a better and easier way of tracking one’s accounts compared to messing about with spreadsheets. Mick’s demonstration included Money Accounts (i.e. Bank Accounts and Credit Cards showing the state of one’s financial balances) and Income and Expenditure accounts (showing where the money… Read more…

Beaminster — Sep 1st 2015

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A record attendance at Beaminster this month – the smallest ever, bar one, as just 9 people came to hear Michael continuing his exploration of the basics of Pages. This time it was to show what can be done with, and in, Text Boxes and Shapes. These can be used in Numbers and Keynote as well, and are useful for adding comments, focussing attention on specific parts of a document, or for making a better layout… Read more…

Salisbury — Aug 25th 2015

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Salisbury section meeting 25th August 2015, at Tesco Extra, Community Space, Southampton Road Salisbury,.

9 members and two guest attending.

First up was a Q&A with questions regarding iPhone and MacTV

Our presentation was by Brian regarding applications that allow large format designs and printing, the application was Scribus a page layout application similar to the high end page layout applications but a lot cheaper because it… Read more…